Thursday, March 28, 2019

This Thursday, Bottleneck Gallery has a trifecta or purr-fect releases from Joey Feldman: His Pixies gig poster; an art print; and their first collaboration with the fine folks at Rampant Decks!

Joey’s newest gig poster for The Pixies’ Columbus, Ohio shows in March feature a warped and wonderful take on the Cheshire Cat. Joey’s dissected the character and created his own cool creation, the Fuschia Cat! To coincide with the gig poster release, Joey’s also created an art print with the crazed kitten.

In addition, they’re proud to announce our first collaboration with Rampant Decks! Rampant is a new company that focuses on high quality, limited edition skate decks from a wide variety of talented artists. Rampant’s debut deck, from Joey Feldman, is absolutely monstrous, and is an exciting new medium for both Joey and BNG.

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Jim Evans aka TAZ has been digging through his archives for what looks to be an amazing show this weekend curated by RISK.

Once referred to as the “Rock Poster God” artist Jim Evans will be exhibiting rare and early prints from his personal collection at the Mayfair Hotel (1256 W 7th St) in Los Angeles, CA located inside their Regime Contemporary Art Gallery starting with the grand opening March 29th - 6 to 11 pm and running through March 30th - noon through to 6 pm. Regime Contemporary Gallery is curated by LA Graffiti legend Kelly "RISK" Gravel and will be home to some iconic rock posters from Jim Evans, including show posters for Nine Inch Nails, Ramones, Smashing Pumpkins and Pixies.

Featured for sale at the exhibit are rare prints produced with master LA print maker Richard Duardo dating back to the 1980’s as well as some of his early rock concert posters for Nine Inch Nails, Beastie Boys and Green Day. Highlighting the exhibit are the original artist proofs for early “Lallapalooza” Concerts.

Big Ol' Nasty Getdown are thrilled to announce the drop of Munk One ‘Creatures of Habit’ prints. Details: Main edition $30, variants $80 of which there are 11 different ones, 18”x24", all prints signed and numbered by the artist.

In other news, the Getdown has been doing spring cleaning and uncovered some super rare variants prints from years past including concert prints for Queens of the Stone Age, Primus, Foo Fighters, Ween, Widespread Panic, and more which we'll be adding to the store throughout the week. Lastly, Vol 1 CDs are back in stock!

These posters line up (on either side!) with Munk One's and form a 2-piece diptych poster set.

Maxx242 311 Cruise Premium Posters

Posters measure 24" x 18" each and are 7 color screen prints on premium foil paper stocks in celebration of 311's 2019 Caribbean Cruise. All posters signed and numbered in the below editions by artist Maxx242.

Munk One has teamed up yet again with super-artist Maxx242 to create a set of posters in celebration of the event!

Munk One's posters will be available through his website and Maxx242's will be available through his Fighting 4 Dreams Studios. The 2 posters line up (on either side!) to form a 2-piece diptych poster set.

First up is James Flames latest poster for Dave Matthews Band, from their recent show in London.

The title for this one is "Magic Always Finds You”, and here's its little story from James: It's a typically rainy day in London, and a young couple is taking a lazy stroll through the city. Along their way, they pass by this curious building that catches their eye – something about it just calls to them, and the plants and flowers inside look SO inviting. So they come in from the rain for a few minutes to find some peace and quiet in this happy little place – and just as they get comfortable and start to dry up, star-dust floats through the window and dances around them, celebrating young love. They reach out and grab a little bit of the magic, so that they can take it with them as they go back out into the city, back out into the rain.

Next, he'll be releasing the new posters he made for Eric Church, from his recent shows in North Carolina. According to James "this was a really fun and challenging project. It's a three-poster set (triptych), with all three individual posters combining together to make one giant image." These will be sold as matching number sets of three posters.

But, James wanted to take this to another level, and so he created the image so that the two end-pieces could combine seamlessly to create a two-piece set (diptych). For these, he made special uncut sheets -- so it's one giant 36" x 24" poster, uncut, combining the two posters together. These uncut sheets are exclusive to his website, they were not available at the shows, and they're limited to an edition of only 25!

Grey Matter Art is very pleased to announce a new officially licensed, limited edition print for the beautifully animated movie, "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" by artist, Andy Fairhurst. This Academy Award winner for best-animated feature has become one of GMA's favorite titles to work on, and they're so excited to see what Andy did. He seamlessly blended his style with art from the Spider-Verse movie to create this gorgeous and vibrant poster!

This started life as a gig poster for an American band based around a dark sci brief that i took on to explore some of my different influences and also for fun, anyway the art director wanted a less digital looking image and i was into this look for this project so i stepped down from the project, it was a nice opportunity and i was glad to be given the chance even if it didn't work out this time, anyway i still really liked the image so i turned it into a small run art print.

It was heavily inspired by the french comic book artist Moebius who's work i've been reading at length in recent months and title is taken from a volume of The adventures of Tin Tin.

New print edition from Josh Keyes available now. 'Stairway To Heaven' was originally featured in his sold out exhibition with Thinkspace Gallery this past fall. The most requested image in the show and it's easy to see why. Such an absolutely powerful piece from Keyes.

Thursday, March 21, 2019

As Umphrey's McGee "Wax On, Wax Off" tour winds down, Kyle Baker has released the poster he did for them.

The Lava Foil variant is an edition of 16 and the Pillars Foil is an edition of 35. The Rainbow Foil is larger edition at 74 and there are 93 of the main artist edition. All the posters do come signed & numbered from him of course.

"It is always a pleasure working with PangeaSeed Foundation and supporting their cause to help save our oceans through ARTivism. This time I was compelled to do an illustration depicting the magnificent manta rays. I’ve always been fascinated by this graceful creature. Their underwater “flight” which can only be described as entrancing and surreal. So as a follow up to my previous edition with PangeaSeed, “Rising Hammerheads", again I wanted to depict both humans and in this case manta rays, swimming in synchronicity, ascending to a brighter future."

Phil Lesh and Friends played 3 nights at the Capitol Theatre and N.C. Winters did the poster for the shows.

According to NC "Thrilled to announce my first gig poster for Phil Lesh and Friends. I
say first, because it was a blast to do and I’m hoping to do more!
Really happy with how this piece turned out. For this three-night gig, I
wanted to focus on the terrapin turtle from multiple references as an
important theme in the Phil Lesh and Grateful Dead universe."

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Jeff Soto has an amazing piece of work releasing Wednesday. This marks a more personal direction in his creative process.

Here is Jeff in his own words discussing his new approach:

I’m on a quest to create more personal art prints so I made a decision last year to take on less gig poster assignments. I have always loved the art and process of screenprinting- the layers, the colors, the linework and the shapes! These fine art prints will not have “Metallica” or “Primus” or “Pearl Jam” on them but I am creating them with the same artistic spirit and care. These prints are for my fans, and I’m hoping some of friends I have met along the way making gig posters will like them too!

This is “Skull of Life”. It celebrates Spring’s colorful flower blooms, bugs, bees, butterflies and the wild growth of Nature. It is inspired visually by my own plant collection of cacti and succulents.

There will be two editions.

“Skull of Life”, 18” x 24”, 7 color screenprint on Madero Beach 100lb paper. The print is signed, embossed and numbered in an edition of 100. Printed by Industry in Austin, TX.

“Skull of Life” celebrates Spring’s colorful flower blooms, bugs, bees, butterflies and the wild growth of Nature. It is inspired visually by Soto’s love of plants.

“Skull of Life”, 20” x 28”, hand embellished 7 color screenprint on 300gsm Industry Recycled Rag paper with deckled edge. This print is signed, embossed, titled and numbered in a small edition of only 10 prints. Printed by Industry in Austin, TX.

This is a very special edition of “Skull of Life”. Each print is hand embellished by Soto and completely unique! These are printed on an amazing paper called Industry Recycled Rag. Created by famed papermaker Yama Ploskonka of Papel Texano, this 300gsm handmade paper was created for Industry Print Shop’s 10 year anniversary. Ploskonka took 500 sheets of screen printed test prints and created a beautiful recycled cotton rag paper. No two sheets are alike- each contains small remnants of past screenprints, each shred, rich with its own history! Every sheet is watermarked with Industry Editions & Papel Texano marks (pic before hand embellishment and signing).

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Rich from Anonymous Ink & Idea has been busy finalizing a really exciting limited print release for sometime in late April or early May... but for right now, he's got a few cool new additions to his store.

Rich gets a lot of requests for keyline versions of his newer pieces, so he decided to screen-print three smaller prints to satisfy those requests.

The first two are 9x9 inches and the third one is 15x18 inches, all screen-printed on 100lb Lynx Opaque Ultra.

Grey Matter Art is proud to announce a new officially licensed, limited edition screen-print featuring the 2017 James Gunn written and directed film, "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" by Florey. GMA heard the best news ever this weekend when it came to their attention that James Gunn has been rehired to write and direct Guardians of the Galaxy 3! GMA couldn't think of a better way to celebrate his return than with the release of this beautiful screen print by Florey. Welcome back, James, you were missed!